-Deccan Herald Many of our policies are great on paper, but they face bottlenecks in planning and implementation Water has high political salience as a subject in India. The country has made steady progress in access to drinking water since the National Drinking Water Mission was launched in 1986. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) launched in 2019 furthers this progress by aiming to provide functional tap connections to every house. This does not...
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The shackles of 1861 need to go -RK Vij
-The Hindu Though much has changed, attention needs to be paid to lingering issues in India’s police agency As India is celebrating 75 years of Independence, the police continue to be in the public gaze, most often for antagonistic reasons. Criminal laws and procedures, though modified, and the shadows of India’s colonial legacy do not appear to leave the police agency any time soon. Changes to the IPC India’s parliamentarians rose to the occasion...
More »Patra: India can sustain CAD of 2.5-3% without an external sector crisis
-The Telegraph Overall current account deficit in July rises to $21.04 billion (merchandise and services), commerce ministry reports on Friday Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India deputy governor Michael Patra has tried to soothe concerns about the anticipated surge in India’s current account deficit, suggesting that the country will not be roiled by a crisis if the CAD climbed to anywhere between 2.5 and 3 per cent of GDP. “Our experience has been that...
More »‘He wanted water’: How Dalit boy’s death opened up caste fissures in Jalore village -Mohana Basu
-ThePrint.in Inder Meghwal died Saturday — over 20 days after a teacher allegedly slapped him for drinking water from a clay pot. The family accuses the police of coverup. Jalore: Outside the house of 9-year-old Inder Meghwal in Surana village in Jalore, there’s chaos. Hundreds of people have gathered there to demand justice for the 9-year-old Dalit boy who allegedly died Saturday after his teacher slapped him for drinking water out of...
More »Amid Dam Collapse Danger In Madhya Pradesh, Villagers Returning Home -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Rocks delayed digging of two channels to release water -- one was finally done by Saturday night; disaster force, army, air force deployed Bhopal: Villagers shifted out to shelter camps due to the danger of a dam bursting in Madhya Pradesh are returning to their homes, even though the risk is far from over. They are worried about their cattle and other livestock. Some water from the dam reservoir was, however,...
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